Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-12-15

barn, refuse To pay rue royalty on them
and then to heap additional shame and
obloquy upon me, they name their
domestic animals after me l had
always believed the Americans o DO u
wild and hairy, Yet generous race. /
was taught TO regard them as n people
who wore the + trousers and stab Eniyes
in their boot legs, but loved to see fair
play; but when am ch SEIZED out OF
my ready kopecks, and INSCRIPTIONS
publishers on this side stand in with
american hustlcrs to cable Ny bran
new tragedy across The Atlantic before
! can sign 1t and tun around to spit,
and then emphasize their bloody insult
by chr stening Fercheron horse in
Illinois with my name in full, say that
literature Is ut low ebb in your
country.
You are all Ea ylc Screams and
Fourth of July and Starry Banner Free
and blooming brag by Jovo, and no
cider. l sometimes wish that | haA
been born with Just barely brains
enough for my own Use. You cannot
really understand how 1t o hausts one
to jerk the Tyre for all creation and not
get half aid for it.
But some day the coarse and greedy
American will wake up and demand a
poem that shall be soaked iull Of n sad,
musical and rythmical violation OF the
statutes in such case made and pro-
vided, and he will ask for the use of
my four-horse teeming brain, but IL will
be stiled forever. Then he will be
sorry and will come and VIII tile of
pieces of my fence to remember me by,
and go down into m, wine cellar and
sob and say that England and the
world have met with great loss, and
he will be right about 1t You hear me,
ALGERoN CHAIR Es SwINBURNr.
Gen. Boulanger cables:
SIR: viii you pardon me to try and
cablegram you in your own language
of what / shall say tuyoup | an, the
author of what you should nominate
"Boulanger's March, which / AM to
understand is what yoIshould designate
in your country one grand crazy. Is 1t
not so'
To my ears IL comes very frequently
as you say. that to ar anything else
musical in America hut "Boulanger's
March" and "What the Little Dickey
Birds Remark" is i'm possible,
Yet get moth NO for all OF those but
to have my portrait translated into
broken English, as you say, and pub
lished in She papers. Canaot your
paper assist in one grand difficulty
which shall result in 4 law that shall
make the author or the criminal both
together, reap the rev ards Of his acts,
and so wherever he shill 90 TO, whether
midas icy mountains or Greenland's
coral strands. as some one has said, he
shall not escape, hut be rewarded or
punished so much in one country as the
other, whether he shall steal bank
rationale or write pc ,m9
Then should get mall sum when
my march is sold along what We shall
call the Rue dc Park row. Then shall !
re oicement first rate when everybody
shall whistle il or play 1t or sing 1t. ]
now close up this letter with a small
remark and 10 is this: When you shall
expect to have great authors, or send
good men TO foreign countries to repre-
sent your grand country, do not ono
mize too much arden me TO wr To
you mean thing, bit il will take q
century to make your literature ana
your foreign ministry grow up so that
they shall tit your great financial en-
barrassments
will now excuse you and sayso long,
with my love to the pre- sding officer of
your country, whose iame l do not
now recall.
Another gentleman who asks to have
his name withheld, rit 3 rs follows:
SIR: Will you kindly useyour influence
in the direction Of international copy
rightp suppose that have suffered
no more than others, but | feel keenly
the loss have sustained through the
lack of protection to my brains. Tor
one session was chaplain in our
national congress, aud the prayers with
which | opened the s. sslon were re-
garded SO highly by frit nds that had
the stenpgraphcr take them down, and
at the dose of the sessi published